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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Henry Graham Greene
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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